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Sarah Kent

Office: 461 CCC

Phone: 346-4442

E-mail: skent@uwsp.edu

Title: Professor and Coordinator

International Studies

 

Education:

Ph.D., Indiana University

M.A.,  Indiana University

B.A.,  Connecticut College

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 Courses taught:  

   

 History 107 Early Modern European History

 History 108 Modern Europe since 1815

 History 120 European Ethnic Groups

 History 329/529 Yugoslavia 

 History 337/537 Russian History and Civilization

 History 338/538 Soviet Union

 History 339/539 Habsburg History

 History 340/540 Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

 History 341/541 Topics in Russian History

 History 393/593 The Holocaust

 History 489 Colloquium on World War I  

Publications

Franz Josef in Zagreb:  Croatian Politics, Society, and Culture at the End of the Nineteenth Century (in preparation)

“State Ritual and Ritual Parody:  Croatian Student Protest and the Faltering of Celebrity Monarchy at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” book chapter in The Limits of Loyalty:  Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

General Yugoslav Editor and author of encyclopedia articles on “Eugen Kvaternik,” “Emigration from Croatia,” and “Sabor” for the Encyclopedia of Modern East Europe (Garland Press, 2000)

“Bosnia,” Faces (a children’s cultural geography magazine), April 1999

“Writing the Yugoslav Wars:  English-Language Books on Bosnia (1992-1996) and the Challenges of Analyzing Contemporary History,” American Historical Review, vol. 102, no. 4 (October 1997), pp. 1085-1114

"Croatia," Encyclopedia Americana, 1993

"Europe's New Independent States:  A Reader's Guide to Croatia" (with Lawrence D. Orton), Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1992

"Hrvatski odvjetnici i politika profesije:  Dilema profesionalizacije 1884-1894" [Croatian Attorneys and the Politics of Profession:  The Dilemma of Professionalization, 1884-1894], Historijski zbornik, LIII:1, pp. 249-269. 

Recent Conference Participation

Comment on "Croatian Light Musical Theater in the Southern Slavic Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1860-1918" and "The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy in East-Central Europe and the Balkans," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2007)

"The Forestry and Agricultural Jubilee Exhibition in Zagreb in 1891." invited paper for symposium on "Exhibiting the Nation," University of Texas, Austin, Texas (October 2007)

"Yugoslavia 101" and "Children, Art, and the Holocaust," Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian (CREECA) K-12 Teacher Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (June 2007)

"The Bolshevik Revolution," History Teachers' Alliance, UW-Marathon County, Wausau, Wisconsin (November 2006)

"Eastern Europe and the Cold War," History Teachers' Alliance, UW-Marathon County (April 2003)

Chair for "Jews in Interwar Hungary," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. (November 2006)

Participant in "Nationalism and Music" roundtable, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36" National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2004)

Comment on "Young Slovene Scholars," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2004)

Chair, panel on the Ottoman/Habsburg borderlands, at the National Convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (January 2004)

“State Ritual, Ritual Parody:  Croatian Student Protests in 1895 and the Faltering of Celebrity Monarchy,” presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 34th National Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 2002) 

International and National Service

Reader, National Resource Center Applications for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Department of Education, Washington, D.C. (January 2003)

Participant in Briefing of Ambassador McElhaney, U.S. Ambassador to Sarajevo, Bosnia, in Washington, D.C. (August 2004)

Participant in Briefing of Ambassador Franks, U.S. Ambassador to Zagreb, Croatia, in Washington, D.C. (May 2003)

"Croatian Nationalism," two-hour lecture at the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C. (April 5, 2000)

Executive Secretary of the Provisional Election Commission, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Hercegovina (1997)

Select Fellowships and Grants

UPDC Grant to Study Italian in Siena, summer 2006

Participant, Holocaust Education Foundation’s Seminar at Northwestern University, summer 2002.

UPDC Grant to attend Holocaust Education Foundation’s Study-Tour in Poland and Czech Republic, summer 2001

Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., summer 1999

Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1994-95

Researcher, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Budapest, Hungary, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1989-90

Researcher, IREX, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, summer 1988

ACLS/JCEE Dissertation Write-up, Bloomington, Indiana, 1986-87

Fulbright Junior Researcher, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1982-84

National Defense Educational Act Grant for Serbo-Croatian, Bloomington, Indiana, 1980-81 

Languages

Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian—very good

German—good reading knowledge

French—reading knowledge

Russian—reading knowledge

Italian—basic reading knowledge

Slovene—basic

Hungarian—basic  

Professional Memberships

American Historical Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Croatian Studies Association

Hungarian Studies Association

Slovene Studies Association

Southeast European Studies Association

Association for Women in Slavic Studies

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Alpha Theta